Best and worst
Lucky you!
Great was that sudden incident
-fell the roof on your head, you are dead.
-You still felt the taste of the cheese
- (The feta with bread; just toasted…)
Lucky you!
Lucky you!
Lucky you!
Simple fall
-you crushed
-to your death.
Did you see pits of dates?
- (they sat there by plate…)
-you must have…
Did you chat?
Should have heard
-their trip from palm
- (forcefully migrated)
-to being abandoned.
They too, had homely life,
-lived under bright sun.
But removed; they were packed.
They were shipped in boxes
-to be sold in markets.
Wealth, flesh, was taken
-mourning for children, palms remained.
-Enslaved became pits, abandoned
-and blamed: "Savages are useless! "
Each of these could become
-if tendered under sun, great palm.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem